Estimating plant competition coefficients and predicting community dynamics from non-destructive pin-point data: A case study with Calluna vulgaris and Deschampsia flexuosa

Plant Ecology

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 687-697

  Damgaard, Christian ^a   Riis Nielsen, Torben ^b   Schmidt, Inger Kappel ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heathland; Plant competition model; Point intercept; Succession

Indexed keywords

AGING; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DROUGHT; GRASSLAND; HEATHLAND; HERB; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB;

CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA;

EID: 67349196744     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9521-z     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. JP Bakker H Olff JH Willems M Zobel 1996 Why do we need permanent plots in the study of long-term vegetation dynamics? J Veg Sci 7 147 156 10.2307/3236314 (Pubitemid 27266772)
2. P Barclay-Estrup 1970 The description and interpretation of cyclical processes in a heath community. II. Changes in biomass and shoot production during the Calluna cycle J Ecol 58 243 249 10.2307/2258179
3. P Barclay-Estrup CH Gimingham 1969 The description and interpretation of cyclical processes in a heath community. I. Vegetational change in relation to the Calluna cycle J Ecol 57 737 758 10.2307/2258496
4. C Beier B Emmett P Gundersen A Tietema J Penuelas M Estiarte C Gordon A Gorissen L Llorens F Roda D Williams 2004 Novel approaches to study climate change effects on terrestrial ecosystems at the field scale: drought and passive night time warming Ecosystems (N Y, Print) 7 583 597 10.1007/s10021-004-0178-8
5. C Beier IK Schmidt HL Kristensen 2004 Effects of climate and ecosystem disturbances on biogeochemical cycling in a semi-natural terrestrial ecosystem. Water, soil, air pollution Focus 4 191 206 (Pubitemid 39138324)
6. JKA Bleasdale JA Nelder 1960 Plant populations and crop yield Nature 188 342 10.1038/188342a0
7. Bruggink M (1993) Seed bank, germination, and establishment of ericaceous and gramineous species in heathlands. In: Aerts R, Heil GW (eds) Heatlands: patterns and processes in a changing environment. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Holland, pp 153-180
8. EF Conner D Simberloff 1979 The assembly of species communities: chance or competition Ecology 60 1132 1140 10.2307/1936961
9. C Damgaard 1998 Plant competition experiments: testing hypotheses and estimating the probability of coexistence Ecology 79 1760 1767 (Pubitemid 28382447)
10. Damgaard C (2004) Evolutionary ecology of plant-plant interactions: an empirical modelling approach. Aarhus University Press, Aarhus
11. C Damgaard 2008 Modelling pin-point plant cover data along an environmental gradient Ecol Model 214 404 410
12. WH Diemont HDM Linthorst Homan 1989 Re-establishment of dominance by dwarf shrubs on grass heath Vegetatio 85 13 19 10.1007/BF00042251 (Pubitemid 20424711)
13. LG Firbank AR Watkinson 1985 On the analysis of competition within two-species mixtures of plants J Appl Ecol 22 503 517 10.2307/2403181 (Pubitemid 16279798)
14. RP Freckleton AR Watkinson 2001 Nonmanipulative determination of plant community dynamics Trends Ecol Evol 16 301 307 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02146-2
15. DJ Gates M Westcott 1978 Zone of influence models for competition in plantations Adv Appl Probab 10 299 537 10.2307/1426901
16. N Gotelli DJ McCabe 2002 Species co-occurrence: a meta-analysis of J.M. Diamonds's assembly rules model Ecology 83 2091 2096 (Pubitemid 36530704)
17. T Hara T Wyszomirski 1994 Competitive asymmetry reduces spatial effects on size-structure dynamics in plant populations Ann Bot (Lond) 73 173 190 (Pubitemid 2049006)
18. GW Heil R Bobbink 1993 "Calluna", a simulation model for evaluation of impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on dry heathlands Ecol Modell 68 161 182 10.1016/0304-3800(93)90015-K (Pubitemid 24408190)
19. Hubbell SP (2001) The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton
20. S Jonasson 1983 The point intercept method for non-destructive estimation of biomass Phytocoenologia 11 385 388
21. S Jonasson 1988 Evaluation of the point intercept method for the estimation of plant biomass Oikos 52 101 106 10.2307/3565988 (Pubitemid 19318567)
22. Kent A, Coker P (1992) Vegetation description and analysis: a practical approach. John Wiley & Sons, New York
23. Kulenovic MRS, Merino O (2002) Discrete dynamical systems and difference equations with Mathematica. Chapman & Hall, Boca Raton
24. R Law AR Watkinson 1987 Response-surface analysis of two species competition: an experiment on Phleum arenarium and Vulpia fasciculata J Ecol 75 871 886 10.2307/2260211 (Pubitemid 18289657)
25. R Law T Herben U Dieckmann 1997 Non-manipulative estimates of competition coefficients in a montane grassland community J Ecol 85 505 517 10.2307/2960573 (Pubitemid 27398610)
26. Levy EB and Madden EA (1933) The point method of Pasture analysis. N Z J Agric 46:267-279
27. SW Pacala JA Silander 1990 Field tests of neighborhood population dynamic models of two annual species Ecol Monogr 60 113 134 10.2307/1943028 (Pubitemid 120025824)
28. M Rees PJ Grubb D Kelly 1996 Quantifying the impact of competition and spatial heterogeneity on the structure and dynamics of a four-species guild of winter annuals Am Nat 147 1 32 10.1086/285837
29. Riis-Nielsen T (1997) Effects of nitrogen on the stability and dynamics of Danish heathland vegetation. Ph.D thesis, Department of Plant Ecology, University of Copenhagen
30. SH Roxburgh JB Wilson 2000 Stability and coexistence in a lawn community: experimental assessment of the stability of the actual community Oikos 88 309 423 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.880209.x (Pubitemid 30118980)
31. SH Roxburgh JB Wilson 2000 Stability and coexistence in a lawn community: mathematical prediction of stability using a community matrix with parameters derived from competition experiments Oikos 88 395 408 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000. 880218.x (Pubitemid 30118979)
32. IK Schmidt D Williams A Tietema P Gundersen C Beier BA Emmett 2004 Soil solution chemistry and element fluxes in three European heathlands and their responses to warming and drought Ecosystems (N Y Print) 7 638 649 10.1007/s10021-004-0217-5 (Pubitemid 39308525)
33. A Shmida S Ellner 1984 Coexistence of plant species with similar niches Vegetatio 58 29 55
34. J Silvertown ME Dodd DJG Gowing JO Mountford 1999 Hydrologically defined niches reveal a basis for species richness in plant communities Nature 400 61 63 10.1038/21877
35. AC Terry MR Ashmore SA Power EA Allchin GW Heil 2004 Modelling the impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on Calluna-dominated ecosystems in the UK J Appl Ecol 41 897 909 10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00955.x
36. LA Turnbull D Coomes A Hector M Rees 2004 Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants J Ecol 92 97 109 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2004. 00856.x
37. MMI van Vuuren LJ van der Eerden 1992 Effects of three rates of atmospheric nitrogen deposition enriched with N-15 on litter decomposition in a heathland Soil Biol Biochem 24 527 532 10.1016/0038-0717(92)90076-A (Pubitemid 23399475)
38. M van Vuuren R Aerts F Berendse W Wisser 1992 Nitrogen mineralization in heathland ecosystems dominated by different plant species Biogeochemistry 16 151 166 10.1007/BF00002816 (Pubitemid 23375185)
39. AS Watt 1947 Pattern and process in the plant community J Ecol 35 1 22 10.2307/2256497
40. J Weiner C Damgaard 2006 Size-asymmetric competition and size-asymmetric growth in a spatially explicit zone-of-influence model of plant competition Ecol Res 21 707 712 10.1007/s11284-006-0178-6
41. E Weiher GDP Clarke PA Keddy 1998 Community assembly rules, morphological dispersion, and the coexistence of plant species Oikos 81 309 322 10.2307/3547051 (Pubitemid 28111232)
42. J Weiner P Stoll H Muller-Landau A Jasentuliyana 2001 The effects of density, spatial pattern and competitive symmetry on size variation in simulated plant populations Am Nat 158 438 450 10.1086/321988
43. JB Wilson MJ Crawley ME Dodd J Silvertown 1996 Evidence for constraint on species coexistence in vegetation of the Park Grass experiment Vegetatio 124 183 190 (Pubitemid 27017320)
44. Wolfram S (2003) Mathematica. Wolfram Research, Inc, Champaign, USA
45. T Wyszomirski 1983 A simulation model of the growth of competing individuals of a plant population Ekol Polska 31 73 92 (Pubitemid 15270526)